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Assembly Bill 813 Offers Tax Credits for Homeowners Who Install Hot Water Recirculating Systems

The world-wide first glandless circulator with ECM technology and up to 80% smaller operating cost and integrated variable speed control for heating and chilled water applications.

World premiere on the

ISH in Frankfurt,

from 27th – 31st March 2001,

hall 9.1, C 46 – D 46.

VSX – VOGEL SOFTWARE – Europe’s leading supplier of pump selection software introduced its products to American professionals at the 18th Pump Users Symposium in Houston, Texas the first time. Lots of attention by pump users and manufacturers got the Pump Search Engine at www.spaix.net, a world novelty in the eCommerce business.

Rainleader 20, ESPA’s latest invention for the recovery of rainwater, has won one of the Design Plus ISH 2001 prizes awarded by Messe Frankfurt in collaboration with the IF Industrie Forum Design Hannover to acknowledge the good ideas of the new millennium.

Matthew Winser has joined pump manufacturer Weir Engineering Pty Ltd as product manager, Hidrostal pumps.

At this year’s ISH, KSB Aktiengesellschaft, Frankenthal, will present its latest sewage lifting unit to the public for the first time. Named Ama-Sani, it is the smallest product in the manufacturer’s product line and supplements the company’s existing scope. It allows house owners to maintain, for example, a guest bathroom below backwash level, say, in a basement, from where waste water would normally not run into the sewer unaided.

Goulds Pumps (Nanjing) is a joint venture between ITT Industries (62%), Nanjing Deep Well Pump Company (31%) and the Bank of China (7%).

Accretive Acquisition Will Create Multi-Industry Company with $5 Billion in Annual Revenues and Enhanced Value-Creation Opportunities Will Broaden and Strengthen SPX’s Portfolio of Industrial and Technical Businesses

Sulzer Pumps sales increased by 21% (11% adjusted for acquisitions) to CHF 855 million (prior year: CHF 709 million). This is attributable to the improved market situation in the second half of the year, particularly in oil and gas, power generation as well as pulp and paper markets.

The new Weir Process Group, whose activities are targeted at the hydrocarbon and chemical pump market, has won its largest order since it was set up six months ago.